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DRAKE, SIR FRANCIS ; fitted out at Dockyard his Naval expeditions, 

 1587, etc. 



DUNCAN, COL. FRANCIS, M.P. ; wrote History of Royal Artillery, 

 1872 ; died here 1888. 



EVELYN, JOHN ; diarist, author of "Sylva," etc., died 1706 ; had 

 much to do with Woolwich during Dutch War, 1665. 



FORBES, J. STAAT ; railway magnate, 1895, etc., born here. 



FRANKLIN, SIR JOHN, Arctic explorer, fitted expedition at Dock- 

 yard, 1845. 



GORDON, GEN. CHARLES ; distinguished soldier and philanthropist, 

 born at 29, Woolwich Common, 1833. 



GREGORY, OLINTHUS ; mathematician, lived here and died here in 

 1841 ; buried at Charlton. 



GRIMALDI, JOSEPH ; the famous clown, lived at Prospect Row 1832. 



HENRY, PRINCE OF WALES (son of James I.) ; educated (with his 

 brother, afterwards Charles I.) at Charlton House, and had 

 much to do with Woolwich Dockyard. 



HEWITT, J. ; historian, archaeologist, and authority on ancient 

 armour, lived the latter part of his life, about 1860, at Wood 

 Street, Woolwich. 



HOBSON, F. (" Fred Leslie ") ; actor, born here, 1855. 



HUGHES, SIR EDWIN, first M.P. for Woolwich, 1885, and first mayor, 

 1900. 



HUTTON, DR. CHAS., F.R.S. ; mathematician, lived here, 1773 



1823. 



JEFFERIES, RICHARD ; author, lived at Victoria Road, Eltham. 

 JUKES, REV. J. ; author, etc., lived here, 1879 1901. 



LINDSAY, REV. T. ; Rector of Woolwich, 16861694 ; archbishop 

 of Armagh, 1714. 



LOVELACE, RICHARD ; Cavalier-poet, born here, 1618. 



MAJENDIE, COL. SIR V. D. ; Inspector of Explosives, and author, 

 lived at Woolwich and Charlton many years. 



MARSH, J. ; chemist in Arsenal, discovered test for arsenic, 1833. 



MAUDSLEY, HENRY ; a powder-boy in Arsenal, born here 1771, and 

 became eminent engineer. 



MAURICE, GEN. SIR J. F. ; last Commandant, wrote life of his father, 

 Frederick Denison Maurice, 1884. 



MORE, SIR THOMAS ; Lord Chancellor to Henry VIII., lived at the 

 Court-yard, Eltham, and was father of Margaret Roper, of 

 Well Hall. 



